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A seed-stage startup found an expert geneticist to vet their scientific content

Alex Thompson, CEO

USA

Fact checking and editing

The Problem

The Co-Founder of a small, seed-stage personalized genomics startup was looking for some urgent help with reviewing their genomics research. She was looking for a qualified, motivated geneticist to review some of her team’s research. They wanted the expert to fact-check and edit about 45 short, reader-friendly paragraphs on different genes and SNPs. The requirement was urgent, yet they couldn’t afford to have ANY inaccurate details on their site.

How Kolabtree helped

The client posted her project on Kolabtree, and within a few hours, she received a bid from an expert geneticist who was not only excited to work on the project but also offered to continue working on more such projects for a fixed fee. She immediately accepted the bid and proceeded to share project details. The expert edited and sent across the edited gene descriptions within four days! The client spent the next few days reviewing the work and was extremely happy with the output. In fact, the expert even volunteered to work on a few other aspects to finalize the report to the client’s liking.

About the expert

Leanne Ahronian is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. She has wide knowledge of mammalian cellular and molecular biology and is familiar with a variety of experimental approaches and statistical techniques. She also has a large amount of scientific writing and editing experience!

Client says:

Kolabtree has been great and I will definitely be using your services again.

A publication services firm analyzes their market

Abhishek Goel, Chief Customer Officer

India

Market Research for Publication Services

The Problem

The CCO of a publication support services company wanted to understand the publishing patterns in one of their major markets. He was keen on analyzing information available across various sources to be able to better formulate their marketing strategy.

How Kolabtree helped

The client received five proposals for his project from experts based in different countries. After looking through all proposals, he was able to shortlist an expert with sound credentials to work on his project within his budget and deadline. Jiby ensured that he analyzed all data available across various sources to be able to prepare a comprehensive report. He regularly interacted with the client and submitted his report much in advance. He also added details across various parameters as per the client’s feedback.

About the expert

Dr. Jiby Kurian is currently a Research Associate at McGill University. He has been doing research on the various aspects of biomass conversion to biofuels and biomaterials. He was quite keen on working on this project and his enthusiasm was evident all throughout.

Client says:

Our experience with Kolabtree was fantastic! The communication throughout the project was brilliant and engaging.

A professor gets assistance with his research

Assistant Professor

Colombia

assistance with sourcing and analyzing data

The Problem

A senior professor was looking for some assistance with analyzing some data on real microgrids to create a list of Real Microgrids in Scandiniavian and Eastern Europe. He wanted the expert to source data from various portals and analyze the data provided to him separately.

How Kolabtree helped

The client received two proposals in no time and immediately began conversations with one of them to ensure that he set the right expectations. Jamie (the expert) was able to populate the required dataset within a few days and provided some more information to provide the required information to the client. In addition, Jamie analyzed the data provided by the professor to complete the project to his satisfaction.

About the expert

Dr. Jamie Joseph is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, San Diego. He has a broad neuroscience background, with focused training in behavior genetics relevant to the study of schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

Result

The client was happy with the output provided by the expert and was delighted by the additional information provided. The client was so satisfied that he returned with another small project within weeks of completing this project.

A food entrepreneur hired a food scientist for advise getting his product to the shelves

A Chef and Entrepreneur

USA

Scientific Consulting

The Problem

A California-based food entrepreneur and chef was looking for help getting his organic, aerated candy product ready for the shelves.

How Kolabtree helped

The client posted his requirement on Kolabtree and received a bid from a food scientist within 4 hours. He approved the freelancer, who had the relevant experience and knowledge for the project.

About the expert

Brian Chau
is an independent food science consultant and a food technologist. He works with chefs and startups, helping them with primary market research, finding an ideal target audience, evaluating supply chain and sourcing needs, and more. He works with entrepreneurs, from concept to commercialization. He has worked on nutritional bars and snacks, meal kits, vegan cheese, and more.

Result

The client and freelancer worked together and the project was completed within 2 months

A researcher needed help with her literature search

Beth Pringle, Consultant

USA

Literature search on muscular dystrophy

The Problem

A senior researcher needed help with a literature search on muscular dystrophy. She needed an expert to analyze journal articles detailing preclinical and clinical studies done in the past 4 years.

How Kolabtree helped

The client received seven proposals in very quick succession and was simply delighted by the talent on offer. In fact, she was spoilt for choice to decide on one freelancer for her project. Finally, she selected a freelancer with the most relevant credentials she was looking for. After an initial round of expectation setting, Beth zeroed in onto Lisa Skipper for her project. Lisa and Beth interacted regularly throughout the project to ensure that the final output was very much in lines with the client’s expectations.

About the expert

Dr. Lisa Skipper works as a Research Scientist at The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK. She started her career in Information Technology as an analyst/programmer in the pharmaceutical industry. After broadening her interests and undertaking a BSc in Human Life Sciences, she went on to obtain a PhD in Molecular Genetics and Neuroscience.

Client says:

This is fun. I was leaning towards one proposal and after reading another’s profile, am leaning towards Lisa Skipper, her profile suggested tightly relevant experience, not well reflected in her bid. I’ve had a chance to review a few proposals, you have a compelling assortment of professionals! I get a greater comfort level with the greater amount of profile detail.

An Amazon reseller wanting to analyze data for boosting his sales

James Harbal, Small business owner

USA

statistical model to predict sales volumes

The Problem

An Amazon reseller needed help with analyzing some data on Amazon Best Seller Rank metrics and help him predict the volumes of sales of certain products over a period of time. In addition, the client wanted the expert to be familiar with MySQL and Amazon’s AWS services.

How Kolabtree helped

Within days of posting his project, the client received six proposals from highly experienced data analysts from across the globe. After carefully looking through all bids, the client decided to go ahead with Pooja Rao for his project. This was quite a complicated project that involved several rounds of discussions before the expert came up with a statistical model matching the client’s requirements.

About the expert

Dr. Pooja Rao completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the International Max Planck Research School, Goettingen, Germany. She is currently working as a Bioinfomatics Scientist at Service XS BV. Her research interests include predictive analytics, machine learning and data visualization for biomedical applications.

Client says:

Just something to think about. If you can get the current project working well, you can keep working on more projects with me that use other Amazon data points that I have. I’d think that’d be great! I’d think that’d be great if you can keep working on more projects with me that use other Amazon data points that I have!

An open access journal needing assistance with managing their submission volumes

A life sciences journal

Brazil

Editing

The Problem

An open access life sciences journal specializing in plant and animal genetics with volumes between 20 – 100 submitted manuscripts per week needed assistance with screening manuscripts and providing recommendations to authors on areas that require improvement.

How Kolabtree helped

Kolabtree reached out to several hundred PhD-qualified experts specializing in plant and animal genetics to submit bids for the manuscripts coming in each week. Experts who were selected to review manuscripts provided their comments and recommendations in a customized and standardized report created by the journal.

About the experts

All experts chosen to work on this project had peer review experience and were well qualified to review manuscripts in their select subject areas. Experts were carefully handpicked to ensure that the best experts for each niche subject area were assigned those manuscripts. A total of 43 experts reviewed 450+ manuscripts over a period of almost three months.

Result

The client was extremely satisfied with the output. It was because of the support provided through Kolabtree that the journal could process almost twice the number of manuscripts they would normally process each week. Hence, these recommendation reports helped the journal’s editorial board fast-track their peer review process and optimise their publishing cycle.

A member of a team organizing an HIV awareness music festival in Uganda was looking for help designing a study to assess the impact of the concerts.

A Nurse, Social Worker, and Public Health Volunteer

USA

EXPERIMENT DESIGN

The Problem

The client is a nurse, who actively participates in international volunteering programs that work towards improving the health of under-served communities. She manages a medical team at an HIV awareness music festival in Uganda. As part of an application for an NIH grant, she and her team were conducting a study to assess the impact of the concerts on HIV-related stigma in different regions of Uganda. She wanted expert guidance on data collection procedures, ideas to randomize and stratify their Sampling, as well as feedback on what a proper sample size would be.

How Kolabtree helped

The client posted her project on Kolabtree and received two bids within a day. She chose to work with Dr. Dlorah Jenkins, who had relevant experience for the job.

About the expert

Dr. Dlorah Jenkins
is an interdisciplinary researcher with a keen interest in investigating the interrelated challenges of security, development, health, and environment. Her research experience includes conducting literature reviews, impact studies, needs assessments, and exploratory research; designing field studies; and both quantitative and qualitative data analysis. She also trains less experienced researchers in data collection/analysis, and has worked on a variety of projects such as assessing the economic impact of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa; developing an empirical model to estimate the potential for tolerance towards LGBTQ people in sub-Saharan Africa; and assessing the impact of the Syrian conflict on food security in the region.

Result

The client sent the freelancer a document with the project requirements in detail, after which they set up a Skype call to discuss details. The project was successfully completed within the discussed deadline.

Client says:

I recently had the pleasure of utilizing the Kolabtree platform when preparing a nursing research grant submission. I have submitted for these grants several times in the past, but never been selected. I knew that I would improve my chances if could get a little extra assistance with my study design. Most of my colleagues were either to busy to help or, likewise, didn't have the skill set to offer any additional help.
I was able to post specifics about my needs on Kolabtree and hire the perfect consultant to help me through that portion of the grant wihin a few short days -- making it possible for me to get the grant submitted by deadline.
The platform was easy to use and I had a great overall experience. I would definitely use it again in the future.

A major scientific publisher needing assistance with preparing a knowledge report

Ian Mulvany, Head of Product Innovation at Sage Publications

UK

data analysis

The Problem

The Head of Product Innovation at a major scientific publishing house was looking for an expert to conduct a comprehensive search to find approximate grant awards in the fields of digital humanities and computational social science.

How Kolabtree helped

The client received two bids from highly qualified experts within a span of 24 hours. The client was clearly wowed by the unique approach presented by one of the experts. Apart from using standard search, he proposed to write a code to find grants from all relevant foundations.

About the expert

Dr. Sukant Khurana completed his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently working as a Chief Scientific Officer at Data IS Not Just Data — an innovative data science company that develops new tools, solves high end data-analytics problems and spends half its time doing sustainable development work. He is passionate about neuroscience, drug-discovery, computation, AI, and data science.

Result

The client was very happy with the output, especially with the code that the freelancer provided to him for no extra cost. In fact, the client went ahead and built further on the code to create a much more powerful analysis tool for his research needs. This was a classic example of how an expert delighted one of our clients using a highly innovative approach.

Client says:

I posted a project that had a fairly clear goal, but with no guidance on how to get to that goal. The Kolabtree platform paired me with a data scientist who was able to think flexibly about the task, and who not only delivered on the report that I was interested in, but who also made the code they used to get to that result available. With that in hand I've been able to refine my original research question, and build on the code to create an even more powerful analysis tool for my research needs. The freelancer was timely and communicated well, and I was very happy with the outcome.

A major scientific publisher needing assistance with preparing a knowledge report

Thomas Dahl

USA

Literature Search

The Problem

A researcher was seeking assistance with a literature search on the effects of diphenhydramine in dogs. Diphenhydramine has been used in human medicine since the 1940s, and effects in animals have probably been studied. However, there are many references in veterinary practice to human effects (e.g., sedation) that may not apply to dogs. Hence, the researcher was looking for reputable sources (e.g., peer-reviewed papers, textbooks, monographs etc) that provide both pharmacologic and toxicologic effects in dogs.

How Kolabtree helped

The client received nine bids from highly qualified experts within 12 hours of posting his project. Despite some bids being beyond his budget, the client had the luxury of choosing a subject-matter expert willing to complete his project well within his budget.

About the expert

Dr. Sukant Khurana completed his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently working as a Chief Scientific Officer at Data IS Not Just Data — an innovative data science company that develops new tools, solves high end data-analytics problems and spends half its time doing sustainable development work. He is passionate about neuroscience, drug-discovery, computation, AI, and data science.

Result

The expert conducted an exhaustive search and shared research papers dating back to 1981 on research related to the effects of diphenhydramine in dogs. The client was clearly overjoyed on having received such a comprehensive literature search within a very short span of time.

A marketing consultant looking for a French to English translator for summarizing news articles

Takahiro Watanabe

Japan

Writing

The Problem

The Manager of a marketing consultancy in Japan was looking for a French-speaking freelance researcher to write news summaries. They wanted the expert to source news articles related to the French food industry from specific French news websites and summarize and translate those articles into English.

How Kolabtree helped

The client received three bids from French-speaking experts. The client was simply delighted to find that he could engage French-speaking PhD-qualified from our platform and that too on a budget! He went ahead and selected an expert with experience in the agricultural sector.

About the expert

Dr. Allan Macvicar completed his PhD from the University of California, Irvine, and is currently an Assistant Professor at Chapman University. He is a university-trained freelance French-to-English translator, specialized in academic articles, agriculture, and business communication. His research interests include 20th-century French poetry and film, especially concerning issues of memory during and after WWII.

Result

The client was extremely satisfied with the summaries provided by the expert. In fact, he went ahead to engage the expert for two more projects and is more than willing to engage Allan for his future projects.

Client says:

Kolabtree is offering some great services. There are many platforms that offer access to freelance experts, however it's difficult to use them for corporate-quality work. We got to select from many qualified experts on Kolabtree for our project

The co-founder of a non-profit medical issues research group hired a data scientist for help analyzing the value of medical innovation in specific disease areas.

Dr. Robert Goldberg, Co-founder, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest

USA

Data Science

The Problem

The client, the co-founder of a non-profit research organization that advocates for patient-centered healthcare, was looking for a health economist who could analyze the value of medical innovation in specific disease areas. He wanted to use a patient perspective and estimate the cost impact beyond the health system. He was also looking for help accessing public health and spending databases.

How Kolabtree helped

The client posted his project on Kolabtree and received two bids within a day. One was from a neuroscientist and data scientist, experienced in drug design, and the other was from a quantitative research and public health specialist. He shared further details with both the experts and had a call with both to help him decide which one to choose. He chose to work with the former, Dr. Sukant Khurana, after a detailed discussion on the Kolabtree platform, followed by a Skype call.

About the expert

Dr. Sukant Khurana completed his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently working as a Chief Scientific Officer at Data IS Not Just Data — an innovative data science company that develops new tools, solves high end data-analytics problems and spends half its time doing sustainable development work. He is passionate about neuroscience, drug-discovery, computation, AI, and data science.

Result

The client and freelancer worked together successfully and the project was completed within six weeks.

Client says:

I was faced with completing a complex project in a short time period and despaired about doing so after my search for a consultant that I could trust and who was reliable left me empty handed.

A colleague then recommended posting my project on Kolabtree. It was the single best professional decision I have made in quite a while. I contracted with a brilliant biostatistician and his team that not only completed my project before my deadline but also enhanced my analysis with their insights. While funding for another project did not materialize, the consultant that was going to take on that work was also professional, thoughtful and dependable.

Kolabtree is now an indispensable part of my business development and project implementation team.

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